Machine for treating skeins of textile material



L. GANEVAL March 13, 1934.

MACHINE FOR TREATING SKEINS OF TEXTILE MATERIAL Filed Dec. 3. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet \NVEN ToR ATTORNEY March 13, 1934. GANEVAL 1,950,845

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INVENTOR Lso- GANEVAL I BY I ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 13, 1934 i l 1,950,845

MACHINE FOR TREATING SKEINS OF TEX- TILE MATERIAL Lon Ganeval, Lyon, France Application December 3, 1931, Serial No. 578,838 a In France December 11, 1930 8 Claims. (Cl. 2858) My invention relates to a machine for treating members 28 (which are threaded as nuts) and skeins of textile material. This machine perpresses them against the rim of plate 8. forms in a single operation several treatments As shown, Fig. 2, pinion 21 is loose on shaft which have hitherto been performed separately, 19 and a clutch device 31, operated by a lever 32, '5 viz, centrifuging the skeins, rendering them supis provided to control the rotation of hub 15. ple, beating and drying them. At the lower part of frame 1 there is arranged This machine comprises a housing within which an inclined abutment 43 keyed on a shaft 33 actuis disposed a circular rotating support, the skeins ated by a lever 34 locked at any desired position being radially arranged on said support and the by means of an indented sector 35. This member latter being provided with means whereby the 43 may cooperate with tails 26 during the rotation 5 skeins are driven as a belt on its pulleys, and also of plate 8.

with means to suddenly strike them. The latter and rollers 9 and 22 are housed with- In the annexed drawings: in a box 44 having a central inlet 36 and a tan- Fig. 1 is a front view of the machine, with pargential outlet 37. A door 38 is provided for 5 tial section of the front cover. loading and unloading the machine. Heating 70 Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1 along line II-III. radiators 39 are disposed near the inlet. They Fig. 3 is a back view of the machine, with parare preferably arranged within a perforated cyltial section of the end cover. inder 45 as shown, Fig. 2. The machine operates The machine comprises a frame 1 supporting as follows:

the driving motor 2. The latter drives a worm 3 The skeins are disposed between a roller 9 and a 7 cooperating with a worm wheel 4 keyed on the roller 22, the arrangement being preferably ramain shaft 5. Shaft 5 is supported by ball beardial. Motor 2 is then started. Rollers 22 are thus ings 6. 7 designates a gear box integral with submitted to a centrifugal action, whereby the frame 1. The front end of shaft 5 projects from skeins are tensioned.

box 7 and it is provided with a circular plate 8 of Pinion 21 is then clutched. Pinions 17 and 18 50 large diameter. being somewhat different in diameter, hub 15 ro- Plate 8 is provided with two circular ranges of tates at a speed diiferent from the speed of plate skein rollers. The rollers of the first range are 8. Thus pulley 11 and rollers 9 are rotated at low located near the plate center. They are freely speed. The skeins are driven around rollers 9 and rotatable within the corresponding bores of plate 22 as a belt around its pulleys. 85

8 and they support pulleys 10 behind said plate, Tails 26 strike abutment 43 and are thus roeach roller being associated with one pulley 10, tated around their individual axles against cenone roller of the range having also a second pulley trifugal force. The skeins are momentarily re- 11 (Fig. 2) adjacent to its individual pulley 10. lieved from tension. When a tail 26 escapes from Pulleys 10 are connected together by means of abutment 43, the corresponding roller 22 re- 90 anendless belt 12 (Fig. 3), and pulley 11 coopsumes its former position whereby a blow is given crates with a belt 13 which is passed in a groove to the skeins.

14 provided in a hub 15 loose on shaft 5. The latter act as the vanes of a centrifugal fan I-lub 15 is passed through the front end wall 16 and. air is rapidly circulated from 36 to 37. The

of box '7 and it is provided, within said box, with skeins are thus rapidly dried. A part of the 95 a pinion 17. Shaft 5 is also provided with a pinheated (and not wholly saturated) air may be ion 18 and pinions 17 and 18 are connected toused again as it is well known in the drying ingether through a secondary shaft 19 provided dustry. 40 designates the pipe for heated air, 41 with pinions 20 and 21. being an adjustable valve of any description. m

The rollers 22 of the second range are located 42 in Figs. 2 and 3 designates stops to limit the 6 near the rim of plate 8. They are equal in numangular motion of plates 24. her to rollers 9. And they are loose on shafts 23 The machine thus performs the following opeccentrically supported by plates 24 keyed on erations: centrifuging the skeins, making them V shafts 25, the latter being loose within bores of supple. beating them and drying them by pref- M plate 8 behind which they are provided with erably heated air. It comprises no tensioning radial tails 26 terminating into fingers 27. screws or the like to be operated during loading.

Plate 8 may be braked by friction members 28 The blow given by a roller 22 to the skeins is insupported by a shaft 29 having right and left dependent of their length or weight which is of hand threads, said shaft being controlled through importance since the dry skeins are different in t 5 a lever 30. The rotation of shaft 29 axially moves weight and often in length from the wet ones.

I claim:

1. A machine for treating skeins of textile material subsequentially as described, comprising in combination a rotating support; a first range of rollers rotatably supported by said support, said rollers having their axles parallel to the support axis; means to rotatesaid rollers; a second range of rotatable rollers located exterior to said first range and substantially in "radial alignment therewith, said rollers being equal in number to those of said first range and having also their axles parallel to the axis of said support; and individual supports for the axlesiofj said'secondnamed rollers, said individual supports "being movably supported by said rotating s upport in such a way that any one of said s'econd name'd rollers may be freely moved 'towardsfthe periphery of said support under centrifugal action, its axis being always parallel to the rotatingsupport axis.

c ,2. ,A machine as claimed in claim 1, compris ing an adjustable abutment in the path oflthe individual supports of the rollers of the second range, saidabutm ent being adapted tomovesaid supports towards the axis in successionagainst centrifugal action and to suddenly free them.

' 3. A machine as'claim'e din claim 1, wherein the individual supports for the rollers of the second range are in theform of plates rotatably supported'by the general rotating support, the roller axis being ecc'e'ntrically fixed thereon, each one of said plates being connected with an actuating tail adapted to be actuated 'by' the adjustable abutment;

'4. An apparatus for centrifugally drying, stretching and beating skeins of textile material comprising a rotary shaft, ajplurality of rotatable skein supports carried by and concentrically positioned about said shaft, a plurality of movable skein supports carried by and positioned about said shaft, said I movable subpOrtsl being substantiallylradially aligned Withthe rotatable supports, saidn1' ovable supports being freely movable about their supporting axes and being adapted to be urged in a direction substantiallyradially from said shaft by centrifugal forceproduced byrotation of the shaft and the skein supports carried t r b M V An apparatus for centrifugally drying, stretching and beating skeins of textile material comprising a rotary shaft; a plurality of rotatable skein supports carried by and concentrically po s'itioned about said shaft, 'a plurality of movable skein' supports carried by and positioned about said shaft, said movable supports beingsubstantially radially aligned with the rotatable supports, said movable supports being freely movable about their supporting axes and being adapted to be urged in a-direction substantiallyradial- 1y from said shaft by centrifugal force produced by rotation of the shaft and the'skein supports carried thereby, and an element adapted to be placed in the path of rotation of the movable supports to which path the movable supports are urged by centrifugal force for moving the movable supports out of said path in a direction toward the shaft against centrifugal force.

6. An apparatus for .centrifugally drying, stretching, and beating skeins of textile material comprising a rotary shaft, a pluralityof rotatable skein supports carried by and concentrically po- ,sitioned about said shaft, a plurality of movable "skein supports carried by and positioned about saidish'aft;saidlinovable supports being substantiall'y'fi'adially aligned with the rotatable supports, ,said movable supports being freely mov- "ableabo'ut their supporting axes and being adaptjed. tobeurged in a direction substantially radial- 1y from said shaft by centrifugal force produced byrotation of the shaft and the skein supports carried thereby, an element adapted to be placed in the path of rotation of the movable supports to ,Iwhich pathithe movable supports are urged by centrifugalforce-formoving the movable supports out of said path in a direction toward the shaft ,against rcentrifugal force, and means for varying the position of said element to vary the -movement of the movable supports from the positionlto' which they are urged by centrifugal f r e- 7: An apparatus for centrifugally drying,

stretching and beating skeins of textile material comprising a, rotary shaft, a plurality of rotatable skein supports carried by'and concentrically po- ,s iti oned about said shaft, a plurality of stub shafts carried byand positioned about the shaft in substantially radial alignment with the rotatable skein supports, pmovable skein supports eccentri'cally carried by the stub shafts and adapted to be urged substantially radially away from said rotary shaft by centrifugal force, and

means for periodically rocking the stub shafts ,to cause the movable supports to move toward therotary shaft against centrifugal force.

8. An apparatus for centrifugally drying, stretching andbeating skeins of textile material comprising a rotary shaft, a plurality of rotatable skeinsupports carried by and concentrically positioned about said shaft, a plurality of stub shafts carried by and positioned about the shaft in substantially radial alignment with the rotatable skein supports, movable skein supports eccentricallycarried by the stub shafts and adapted to be urged substantially radially away from said shaft by centrifugal force, an arm on each of the stub shafts, and means for moving a cam into the circular path of travel of said arms to effect rotation of the stub shafts and thereby vary the distance between pairs of substantially radially spaced skein supports.

LE'oN GANEVAL. 

